AI 1970

Concept of Robots

1921

Karel Kapek, a Czech writer, coined the term "robot" in his play Rossum's Universal Robots. His play was about factory-made people, and it projected the first instance of robots taking over the human world.

First AI

1948

William Grey Walter invented the first autonomous robots in the history of automation.

Turing Test

1950

Computer scientist Alan Turing proposes a test for machine intelligence. If a machine can trick humans into thinking it is human, so it has intelligence.

First Game-Playing AI

1952

Arthur Samuel created the first-ever game-playing program for checkers competing against human players.

AI Born

1955

John McCarthy an American computer scientist, and his team proposed holding an "artificial intelligence" workshop in 1955.

UNIMATE

1961

First Industrial robot UNIMATE goes to work at GM replacing humans on the assembly line

ELIZA

1964

Pioneering chat bot developed by Weizenbaum at MIT holds conversation with human.

Shaky First Mobile Robot

1966

From 1966 to 1972, the project was in operation. The project was an approach to connecting various AI fields with navigation and computer vision.

SHRDLU

1968

The creation of SHRDLU, it was one of the first natural language computer programs programs created by Terry Winograd.

AI Winter

1970

Many false starts and dead-ends leave AI out in the cold.